Abstract
Mobile social networking is becoming a new trend allowing users to have instant and real-time access from their devices to any Internet based networking platform. This requirement is not fulfilled by current wireless networks, which provide a limited number of wireless access points with instant Internet access. However, the flexibility of wireless technologies is giving rise to new types of wireless access networks, allowing the Internet to expand in a user-centric way. This new user-centric wireless networking trend aims to mitigate such problems, by allowing sharing of wireless resources for a faster and ubiquitous Internet access. The European project ULOOP—User-centric Wireless Local Loop is investigating new ways of deploying wireless local loops by means of low-cost technologies, where resource sharing is backed up by specific cooperation incentives and mechanisms. This paper aims to introduce the new concept of user-centric networks, an analysis of the most relevant incentive models, and a cooperative networking model to sustain the deployment of low-cost user-centric wireless networks based on cooperation incentives and mechanisms.
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Mendes, P., Moreira, W., Jamal, T., Haci, H., Zhu, H. (2014). Cooperative Networking in User-Centric Wireless Networks. In: Aldini, A., Bogliolo, A. (eds) User-Centric Networking. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05218-2_7
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